PeopleMetrics

MARCH 1, 2018

In this edition of #CXSecrets, I'm going to reveal how measuring customer experience can help companies more accurately predict long-term revenue. If you're not measuring the customer experience consistently , it’s like not counting the money that you’re earning every day from your customers, or keeping track of any expenses.

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PeopleMetrics

JUNE 29, 2020

Basically, any company that is re-introducing human interactions with customers. Should we include new questions that are relevant to the “new normal” customer experience? I hope these recommendations will help you navigate the customer experience during these uncertain times. Topic: Customer Experience.

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PeopleMetrics

MAY 13, 2020

Research in employee e xperience shows that passionate, enthusiastic employees provide a better customer experience. In fact, engaged employees attract engaged customers, and higher customer engagement results in higher profits. Encourage team members to be grateful and enthusiastic about their work. Sean holds a Ph.D.

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PeopleMetrics

AUGUST 31, 2018

Customer service (CS) is critical for delivering a great customer experience (CX). Customer service is part of the overall customer experience, not the entire customer experience. It is vital to understand the difference between CX and CS as you implement Voice of the Customer (VoC).

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PeopleMetrics

JUNE 4, 2019

The sales force becomes a key touchpoint in the customer experience for B2B. B2B companies are smart to want to know what their clients think of their sales process and how the expectations that their sales force established compared to their actual experience. More confidence means you can create better customer experiences.

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PeopleMetrics

MARCH 26, 2018

Numbers aside, though, companies often tend to overlook one vital touchpoint when conducting these mapping exercises: the touchpoint of asking their customers for feedback. Here at PeopleMetrics, I encourage my team to create surveys and feedback mechanisms that somebody can complete while standing in the line at the supermarket.

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PeopleMetrics

MARCH 4, 2020

In other words, operators are able to “close the loop” with the customer, resolve any issues, and reduce the chance of churn. Today, customer-facing teams know when a customer has a problem, and they’re able to use workflows in their VoC software platform to close the loop. Download : The Closed-Loop VoC Process Map.

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PeopleMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

No matter how talented you are as a customer experience professional , you need a team to create a world-class VoC program. IT should be your best friend as you make your VoC program because IT controls the most up-to-date information you need about the customer experience. The Information Technology (IT) Department.

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PeopleMetrics

MAY 28, 2020

Sean McDade, PhD is the author of Listen or Die: 40 Lessons That Turn Customer Feedback Into Gold. He founded PeopleMetrics in 2001 and is the architect of the company’s customer experience management (CEM) software platform. As CEO, he guides the company’s vision and strategy. Sean holds a Ph.D.

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PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

PeopleMetrics and others in the industry could now offer the same type of customer satisfaction programs at a third of the cost of previous methods—and deliver results in real time through our software. Suddenly, a client could take immediate action on customer feedback , rather than waiting six to eight weeks on CSAT survey results.

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PeopleMetrics

JUNE 8, 2020

You should leverage positive customer feedback as well! Recognize alerts acknowledge when an employee does something special or extraordinary to improve the customer experience. A recognition program based on customer feedback is a powerful way to increase employee engagement and create a customer-centric culture.

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PeopleMetrics

MARCH 21, 2018

Today, the internet and social media and sites likes Yelp, Twitter, Facebook and TripAdvisor now allow people to provide feedback on their terms, on their time, and share it publicly. People today are in the habit of sharing feedback. Sean has over 20 years of experience helping companies measure and improve the customer experience.

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PeopleMetrics

MAY 4, 2020

But in a decentralized approach, you’re adding more responsibility to the company’s general managers and department heads whose job it is to deliver a great customer experience. The decentralized approach puts the follow-up in the hands of the people or department that is responsible for the customer experience.

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PeopleMetrics

MARCH 7, 2018

As a CX leader, do you ever feel like you're spending too much time setting up users and dashboards in your feedback management platform when you should be focusing on strategic ways for your organization to improve customer experience? basically all the different parts of your company who impact the customer experience.

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PeopleMetrics

JULY 13, 2020

Use this feedback to make changes to improve feelings of safety or to improve other areas of the customer experience. Sean McDade, PhD is the author of Listen or Die: 40 Lessons That Turn Customer Feedback Into Gold. Sean has over 20 years of experience helping companies measure and improve the customer experience.

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PeopleMetrics

MAY 24, 2018

After months of brainstorms , meetings, late nights and deadlines, I am thrilled to announce that my first book, Listen or Die: 40 Lessons That Turn Customer Feedback Into Gold , will be available for purchase on Amazon starting Tuesday June 19th, 2018. Many companies collect customer feedback, but very few act on what they hear.

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PeopleMetrics

MARCH 12, 2018

Business leaders use this all the time as a way to set standards for performance evaluation on metrics such as Net Promoter Score (NPS) or overall satisfaction; and many look to external benchmarking results as key indicators for how to improve customer experience. The 40 Lessons That Turn Customer Feedback into Gold.

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PeopleMetrics

AUGUST 21, 2018

As we discussed in Lesson #5 , NPS is important to include in your VoC program, but if you’re running a transactional VoC survey, you need other ways to measure the most recent customer experience alongside NPS. The more effort a customer expends on resolving their issue, the more negative the customer experience.

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PeopleMetrics

JUNE 17, 2020

The latter situation is applicable to almost all companies, as COVID-19 has no doubt changed something about the customer experience. In many cases, the customer experience has completely shifted to digital modes. Sean McDade, PhD is the author of Listen or Die: 40 Lessons That Turn Customer Feedback Into Gold.

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PeopleMetrics

JULY 29, 2020

Sean McDade, PhD is the author of Listen or Die: 40 Lessons That Turn Customer Feedback Into Gold. He founded PeopleMetrics in 2001 and is the architect of the company’s customer experience management (CEM) software platform. Topic: Customer Experience. As CEO, he guides the company’s vision and strategy.

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PeopleMetrics

MARCH 16, 2020

Or anything that would cause a customer to indicate at least one of these items: NPS below 7 (i.e., Poor overall customer experience on a recent visit. T hat a problem occurred during their most recent experience. Sean McDade, PhD is the author of Listen or Die: 40 Lessons That Turn Customer Feedback Into Gold.

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PeopleMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

On the other hand, an exceptional employee experience leads to employees who pass on their enthusiasm to customers. In fact, customers are more likely to have a positive customer experience if they are served by passionate employees. Yet most office environments inspire apathy, not excitement. Sean holds a Ph.D.

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PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Customer Experience often lives within Marketing, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the two are always aligned. At PeopleMetrics, we advise our clients to bring customer experience together with marketing. The 40 Lessons That Turn Customer Feedback into Gold. Getting on the same page.

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PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The 40 Lessons That Turn Customer Feedback Into Gold. I was inspired to write this book because of another great book that most of you have probably heard of - Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business by Forrester. Measuring customer experience is critical to we do here at PeopleMetrics.

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PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Today's CX Secret revolves around the notion of a "Customer Experience (CX) Mindset." High-end hospitality companies have owned the CX space for years because they maintain this mindset that every touch point they have with a customer has to be excellent. The 40 Lessons That Turn Customer Feedback into Gold.

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PeopleMetrics

APRIL 9, 2018

Like many of my peers, I too broke into the customer experience space by way of the market research world—working at a large firm on a variety of highly valuable market research programs before founding PeopleMetrics in 2001. So why does the transition from market research to customer experience come so naturally to CX professionals?

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PeopleMetrics

JULY 24, 2019

Are you collecting enough customer feedback to define your goals effectively? B2C companies with thousands or millions of customers, for instance, should make sure that their benchmark goals are based on robust customer feedback. Perhaps employees should focus on something other than NPS ? Sean holds a Ph.D.

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PeopleMetrics

JULY 17, 2018

As noted previously, the term VoC is frequently used to describe the measurement of the customer experience; so is the term customer experience management (CEM). A consulting firm mentioned in the introduction, Forrester , coined a third term: customer feedback management (CFM). Market Research vs. VoC.

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PeopleMetrics

JULY 31, 2018

No matter how you are listening to customers (solicited, unsolicited, verified, observed), the data you will ultimately collect will be one of two types: structured or unstructured. Structured Feedback. Structured customer feedback is the most common, the easiest to deal with, and super important in spite of this lesson’s title.

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PeopleMetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

VoC programs, with their continuous flow of real-time feedback from every customer (not just a sample of customers), are becoming the single source of truth for customer feedback, for both customer experience and, in some cases, market research teams. Sean holds a Ph.D.

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PeopleMetrics

AUGUST 7, 2019

In turn, the best way to secure executive sponsorship in VoC is to demonstrate that improving the customer experience pays big returns. Then begin to create your own internal business case for VoC. Over the long term, a portfolio of those Customer Experience Leader firms far outperformed their Laggard counterparts.

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PeopleMetrics

OCTOBER 29, 2019

If providing feedback takes longer than the actual customer experience, you have a major problem! So, if you’re measuring a customer experience that normally lasts three minutes using a survey that takes ten minutes, it’s time to go back to the drawing board. Watch the clock. Sean holds a Ph.D.

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PeopleMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

I’ve seen companies do actual internal marketing campaigns, with posters in every office, intranet articles and blog posts written by executives, and town hall meetings — complete with skits demonstrating good and bad customer experiences! Once customer feedback via VoC begins to roll in, you are not done!

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PeopleMetrics

JULY 10, 2018

The more important question is this: “As an organization, what can we do today to put the customer first?”. And to really make this really real, each employee at a customer-centric organization should ask themselves this question: “What can I do today to create a better customer experience for our customer?”.

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PeopleMetrics

AUGUST 7, 2018

It can provide excellent insight into the overall relationship you have with your customers, but it falls short in measuring how well the most recent experience went. Used as the only metric in transactional VoC surveys, valuable customer experience feedback may fall through the cracks. Sean holds a Ph.D.

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PeopleMetrics

OCTOBER 3, 2019

As the customer experience lead, you need to focus on how to improve the customer experience rather than managing a complex software process and providing technical support. A good value-added VoC partner can also help you identify specific things you can do immediately to improve the customer experience.

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PeopleMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

One year ago today, I launched my book, Listen or Die: 40 Lessons that Turn Customer Feedback into Gold ( check it out on Amazon! ). The goal of the book was to share best practices on how to create a great Voice of Customer (VoC) program. Customers want things to be easy with as little friction as possible.

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